Page — who ruthlessly blew away six innocent Sikh worshippers at a Wisconsin temple on Sunday — told Simi in the early 2000s that his family had no responsibility for his attitude toward minorities.

“He said his parents did not share his beliefs,” Simi told The Huffington Post.

“He said he wasn’t very close with his family. His parents divorced when he was fairly young and not long after that he said his mother died. It was clear he wasn’t comfortable talking too much about his family so I didn’t press him much.”

Despite Page’s racist beliefs, he came off friendly and open, according to Simi.

The future killer, though, struggled with social awkwardness and relationship with women. He also drank heavily, making it hard for him to hold a steady job.

Even his racists housemates had a tough time with Page, because he wasn’t responsible about coughing up green to his white pals.

“Page also had a problem paying his share of the rent and food so that created some problems too,” Simi said.

“I know he borrowed money from people around the scene and behind his back people would complain about him ‘free loading.'”

Page was in the Army from 1992 to 1998, six years that apparently changed his life forever.

“He once told me, ‘If you don’t go into the military as a racist, you definitely leave as one,'” Simi said.

“He also talked about meeting neo-Nazis in the military and being exposed to neo-Nazi literature while in the military.”

Simi’s troubling comments seem to answer the worst fears of Page’s one-time stepmother, who wondered out what Army life might have done to the future killer.

The 40-year-old killer enlisted in the Army in 1992 before his discharge in 1998.